Tory Councillor David Sprason, Sacked Over Porn Fiasco, To Run As Ukip MP Candidate

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Ukip councillor David Sprason

A former Conservative councillor who was sacked after he used his work laptop to watch porn films, has been selected as a prospective Ukip MP for the area.

David Sprason, the former deputy leader of Leicestershire County Council has been selected as a parliamentary candidate to fight the Bosworth seat for Nigel Farage's party, the Leicester Mercury reported.

Sprason was sacked from his post when an IT worker, repairing his council computer in 2007, told bosses there was a DVD entitled "She Likes It Rough" in the disc drive.

The letter from a council monitoring officer to Sprason, advising him of the find, was leaked to a local newspaper last year.

The council solicitor Elizabeth McCalla said police had "advised me the DVD contained hard-core pornography of the type you might be able to buy in this country, but more likely to buy abroad or over the internet, but that no criminal offence had been committed."

The investigation concluded no illegal activity had occurred, but it told him not to view any such material on a council computer again.

But party officials said he had broken rules by giving interviews on the subject, which made national news, saying he had shown "a serious lack of judgement".